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Euro Edition: Morning Papers
Aired November 24, 2003 - 05:44 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Time now, though, to take a look at what's making headlines overseas in this morning's 'Euro Edition.' For that we head live to London and Becky Anderson.
Good morning -- Becky.
BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A very good morning.
Two serious stories, and then I'm going to just crow for a bit on the English victory over Australia in the rugby. But let me start with these.
MI5 track suicide bombers to Britain. MI5 has told the government that al Qaeda network have already -- that they say that there are a couple of cells in London, sleeper cells, that are now activated. And that they say that they have already achieved a couple of dummy runs so far as car suicide bombings are concerned. They say the targets are shopping centers, synagogues and Jewish schools in the U.K. So a very, very, very scary story on the front of the "Daily Express" this morning.
"Li Beratsio (ph)" in France, the story of the Velvet Revolution in Georgia. Le brision de holes (ph), they call it, and that the story of the bloodless coup, of course, in George. The president there has stood down.
Now it is not often that we win at anything in England, but certainly not often that we beat the Australians, so we are crowing a bit this morning, and forgive me. Give them a big parade. England won at the Rugby World Cup this weekend.
Thirty-eight million pints of beer were drunk on Saturday morning before 11:30 in the morning. And at halftime there was a power surge. The national grid here -- the electricity company runs the national grid have reported a power surge when more than a million cups of coffee were made and cups of tea were made as kettles were turned on at halftime. It was an absolutely stunning victory.
And this man, Johnny Wilkinson, who is the kicker for the English rugby team, is an absolute hero. He won 'Man of the Tournament' in Australia yesterday. I mean such a good-looking man as well. That really helps.
And we also did the Australians, as it were, we put one over on them in polo as well. This is Prince William -- sorry, Prince Harry, of course. And Prince Harry is a huge rugby fan. And after the English beat Australia at rugby, he went on to lead the English young polo team in a polo match against the Australians and won 6-4. And that's a picture of him extremely muddy. It was very wet in Sydney this weekend. And obviously, as he gets off a horse, he's entirely jubilant about the fact that they beat the -- they beat the Australians once again.
COSTELLO: And very manly -- Becky.
ANDERSON: And gave the Aussies another thrashing. Doesn't he look fantastic? But I have got to say, Johnny Wilkinson wins good- looking man of the day. I mean stunning.
COSTELLO: Yes.
ANDERSON: Back to you guys.
COSTELLO: Well not bad at all. You know I was just thinking, rugby, it's just like the American Super Bowl and what happens when, you know, your team wins. So we're just so alike aren't we?
ANDERSON: Yes.
COSTELLO: Especially in our choice of outfits.
ANDERSON: Are we expecting a parade or are we expecting knighthoods for the whole team?
COSTELLO: Right. Thank you, Becky, we appreciate it. Becky Anderson live from London.
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Aired November 24, 2003 - 05:44 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Time now, though, to take a look at what's making headlines overseas in this morning's 'Euro Edition.' For that we head live to London and Becky Anderson.
Good morning -- Becky.
BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A very good morning.
Two serious stories, and then I'm going to just crow for a bit on the English victory over Australia in the rugby. But let me start with these.
MI5 track suicide bombers to Britain. MI5 has told the government that al Qaeda network have already -- that they say that there are a couple of cells in London, sleeper cells, that are now activated. And that they say that they have already achieved a couple of dummy runs so far as car suicide bombings are concerned. They say the targets are shopping centers, synagogues and Jewish schools in the U.K. So a very, very, very scary story on the front of the "Daily Express" this morning.
"Li Beratsio (ph)" in France, the story of the Velvet Revolution in Georgia. Le brision de holes (ph), they call it, and that the story of the bloodless coup, of course, in George. The president there has stood down.
Now it is not often that we win at anything in England, but certainly not often that we beat the Australians, so we are crowing a bit this morning, and forgive me. Give them a big parade. England won at the Rugby World Cup this weekend.
Thirty-eight million pints of beer were drunk on Saturday morning before 11:30 in the morning. And at halftime there was a power surge. The national grid here -- the electricity company runs the national grid have reported a power surge when more than a million cups of coffee were made and cups of tea were made as kettles were turned on at halftime. It was an absolutely stunning victory.
And this man, Johnny Wilkinson, who is the kicker for the English rugby team, is an absolute hero. He won 'Man of the Tournament' in Australia yesterday. I mean such a good-looking man as well. That really helps.
And we also did the Australians, as it were, we put one over on them in polo as well. This is Prince William -- sorry, Prince Harry, of course. And Prince Harry is a huge rugby fan. And after the English beat Australia at rugby, he went on to lead the English young polo team in a polo match against the Australians and won 6-4. And that's a picture of him extremely muddy. It was very wet in Sydney this weekend. And obviously, as he gets off a horse, he's entirely jubilant about the fact that they beat the -- they beat the Australians once again.
COSTELLO: And very manly -- Becky.
ANDERSON: And gave the Aussies another thrashing. Doesn't he look fantastic? But I have got to say, Johnny Wilkinson wins good- looking man of the day. I mean stunning.
COSTELLO: Yes.
ANDERSON: Back to you guys.
COSTELLO: Well not bad at all. You know I was just thinking, rugby, it's just like the American Super Bowl and what happens when, you know, your team wins. So we're just so alike aren't we?
ANDERSON: Yes.
COSTELLO: Especially in our choice of outfits.
ANDERSON: Are we expecting a parade or are we expecting knighthoods for the whole team?
COSTELLO: Right. Thank you, Becky, we appreciate it. Becky Anderson live from London.
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